January 3, 2026 - Explora fallacies in social media, desde Ad Hominem hasta Straw Man. Aprende a identificar y combatir la desinformación en tus interacciones digitales.

April 10, 2023 - You’ve seen them on social media. You’ve heard them in movie dialogue. Heck, you’ve probably even used them yourself. They’re logical fallacies, those not-quite logically sound statements that might seem solid at first glance, but crumble the moment you give them a second thought.

November 14, 2025 - A false cause and effect fallacy happens when a media report assumes that because two events happen together, one must be the cause of the other. This mistake, also known as confusing correlation with causation, is one of the most widespread examples of logical fallacies in the media, particularly in reporting on complex topics like health, economics, or social trends where many factors are at play.

July 18, 2022 - ... Social media trends often rely on the Appeal to the People fallacy, such as viral hashtags encouraging specific political views, e.g., “Everyone agrees [Policy X] is wrong—why don’t you?”

January 5, 2019 - "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32 I was invited to have a chat with an atheist named Tony Murphy on social media who calls himself Hackenslash. When I asked him for the topic that he was interested in discussing, he sent me a meme that indicated…

December 14, 2017 - "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32 I was invited to have a chat with an atheist named Tony Murphy on social media who calls himself Hackenslash. When I asked him for the topic that he was interested in discussing, he sent me a meme that indicated…

For example, it would be silly to claim that exercising is a bad idea because it can leave you sore and tired. These downsides do not outweigh the upsides. When confronted by an idea’s downside, avoid immediately rejecting it. While long already, this is not an exhaustive list of critical thinking fallacies that abound on social media.

December 8, 2021 - by Michael Winters Arguing with someone online, particularly strangers, is often a fruitless endeavor that usually leads to annoyance and deeper hatred

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Here are several prevalent fallacies often observed on social media platforms: Ad Hominem: This fallacy attacks the person making the argument rather than the argument itself. Example: "You can't trust anything [person's name] says about climate change; they're a known liberal/conservative."

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September 30, 2025 - For instance, the legislative branch was designed to require compromise, yet Congress, social media, and partisan cable news channels have co-evolved such that any legislator who reaches across the aisle may face outrage within hours from the extreme wing of her party, damaging her fundraising prospects and raising her risk of being primaried in the next election cycle. Reforms should reduce the outsize influence of angry extremists and make legislators more responsive to the average voter in their district. One example of such a reform is to end closed party primaries, replacing them with a single, nonpartisan, open primary from which the top several candidates advance to a general election that also uses ranked-choice voting.

October 23, 2020 - Unfortunately, people tend to believe what they read on social media sites irrespective of the source of the information. For this reason, governments official information activities should continue and all people's need for accurate information should be met, just like their other needs. ... ... Furthermore, logical fallacy also has been studied in the field of argumentative writing (See Indah and Kusuma, 2015;Widiati and Khoiri, 2017;and Lismay, 2020). Also, investigation of logical fallacies in political discourse is a common practice (see Zhou, 2018;Al-hindawi, 2015;santoso, 2017;Warman and Hamzah, 2019;

July 10, 2024 - When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' or 'whataboutism' to seem more convincing. Amanda Ruggeri explains how to identify these logical fallacies. Scroll social media, tune into the news, or simply raise a hot-button issue with an acquaintance, and within a matter of minutes, you're likely to encounter a trap.

The philosophical concept of informal fallacies–arguments that fail to provide sufficient support for a claim–is introduced and connected to the topic of fake news detection. We assumed that the ability to identify informal fallacies can be trained ...

You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong.

September 28, 2023 - Under these two categories, we have a whole range of specific fallacies, which I’ll be defining in this article as ‘sub-types’. ... Formal Fallacy: A formal fallacy is untrue because of the form or structure of the argument, but not necessarily the content or context. In other words, the relationship between the premise and conclusion lacks logic. Informal Fallacy: An informal fallacy is untrue because of the content or context of the argument, even if it is logical in its form. For example, the premise itself may be irrelevant or a misrepresentation of the truth.

October 18, 2023 - For example, “My opponent is a liar and can’t be trusted to lead the country.” This fallacy is often used to create a negative impression of the opponent and to distract from the issues at hand. Social media platforms are breeding grounds for logical fallacies.